
10.11 QUIZ - Vocabulary, part 2
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- Q1process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to anotherbiogeochemical cycle30s
- Q2the movement of water through the biospherehydrologic cycle30s
- Q3Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.Precipitation30s
- Q4the water that is beneath Earth's surfaceGroundwater30s
- Q5In hydrologic cycle, when liquid water turns into water vapor and enters the atmosphereEvaporation30s
- Q6loss of water from a plant through its leavesTranspiration30s
- Q7In hydrologic cycle, when water vapor changes into liquid water.Condensation30s
- Q8In carbon cycle, the process of burning a carbon-containing substance to create carbon dioxide.Combustion30s
- Q9the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and backCarbon cycle30s
- Q10A natural environment that absorbs and stores more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it releases, which offsets greenhouse gas emissions.Carbon sink30s
- Q11The transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil, to living organisms, and back to the atmosphereNitrogen cycle30s
- Q12process of converting nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and usenitrogen fixation30s
- Q13decomposers like bacteria break dead matter down, returning nitrogen to the soilDecomposition30s
- Q14the formation of ammonia compounds in the soil by the action of bacteria on decaying matterAmmonification30s
- Q15the process by which nitrites and nitrates are converted from ammonia by bacteria in the soilNitrification30s